| 单词 | thrall |
| 释义 | thrall /θrɔːl $ θrɒːl/ noun in somebody’s/something’s thrall (also in thrall to somebody/something) literaryEFFECT/INFLUENCE controlled or strongly influenced by someone or something 在某人/某事的奴役[束缚，控制]之下 We have a congress that is in thrall to special interest groups. 我们的国会受制于一些特殊利益集团。Examples from the Corpusthrall• Self-pity evaporates as she's drawn to playground attendant Billy, unhealthily in thrall to macho pack leader Len.• Something shallow, unearned, but capable of putting you in thrall.• But the demon which had driven him to drink that night, after months of abstinence, had him in its thrall.• Here was the beginning of Canetti's slow escape from the thrall of Karl Kraus.• He had that resigned helplessness which hospital patients and people in the thrall of religious experience have.• Of the literati in their thrall, Budd Schulberg emerged as the writer who told you most about the bouts.Origin thrall (900-1000) Old Norse thrællthrall nounChinese Corpus influenced something controlled or or by someone strongly |
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